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by hopsoft 2815 days ago
I'm not sure any other technology stack would have fared much better.

Consider that 6 years, 2 months, and 20 days passed between Rails 3.2 and Rails 5.2. That's quite a bit of time for the framework to evolve. Then factor in the customizations from several non-framework dependencies and those added by GitHub.

This is an incredible achievement no matter how you slice it.